Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] What about the distributions?

[Eric B. <eb...@cy...>]

laszlo kovacs wrote:
> 
> > What exactly is the proposal? I don't understand how post-install or
> > partial databases could fix the problem?
> I think the problem was described at the beginning of the proposal. In
> order to install a doc with Scrollkeeper, a script has to be run that
> changes the Scrollkeeper database. If this is done from "make install"
> then the database will be modified when a package is installed with
> "make install" or when the package is turned to another format (like
> RPM) as the conversion process also uses "make install". We dont want
> the later. Eric thinks "make install" should behave indentically when
> run from command line (for installation) or when used to create a
> package in a different format. He also thinks that running Scrollkeeper
> install from a post install script is not an option as then post install
> scripts have to be added to a large number of packages and that would
> upset packagers and post install scripts are slow. He suggests that we
> should use partial databases when we build a package (or install with
> make install, I am not sure, but I dont think it is important). The
> partial database would contain the data of that package's documentation.
> This would be exported to the help browser. So the help browser has to
> deal with partial databases on its own or through a library we supply to
> create an interface that would unify the partial databases for the
> browser.

Great summary! ;-)

---------------- user directly installing ---------
USER	        make install => one of many small databases or one big
database,
			        as we wish, depending on whether the name depends on the
package or not
---------------- distributions --------------------
PACKAGER	make-install => partial database
USER		partial database => copied (=> small databases) or merged (=> big
database)

> I thought the file would be installed in /tmp at RPM creation so
> Scrollkeeper would think it is installed. Or this is not what you are
> talking about?

Yes, make install normally should not realize he's working in /tmp

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